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H. O. HADSTATE 8v S. J. MARTIN.

NUMBERING MAGHINE,

No. 443,517. Patented Dec. 30, 1890.

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UNITED STATES HOYTE C. HADSTATE AND STEPHEN PATENT rrrcnl J. MARTIN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN,

ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CARTER d: COMPANY, LIMITED, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEIV YORK.

NUMBERlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,517, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed April 1 9, 1 8 89.

To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that we, HOYTE G. HADSTATE and STEPHEN J. MARTIN, citizens of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Numbering lllachin es, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in numbering-machines, and. has for its object the production of a machine by which consecutive numbers may be printed upon separate sheets of paper succeeding one another or upon the successive parts of a long roll of paper as the sheets or rolls are fed under the machine.

Our device is especially useful in the preparation of What are known as duplicating sale-slips, where it is desired to produce a number of blanks duplicates in every thing except the number imprinted on them, and which after being printed are to be bound into book form or pad form with the consecutive sheets numbered in order from one to the highest number.

Our device is used in connection with the printing-cylinder on which are mounted the type-forms for printing the required blank, and it is used in this connection in order that the operation of printing the blank and print ing the number may be accomplished at the same time, though the device will accomplish its own work whether used alone or used in connection with the printing-cylinder spoken of.

The figures show a device arranged to correspond to a printing-cylinder on which there are mounted five forms of type arranged to print five blanks with each revolution of the printing-cylinder, which our device will number consecutively from one to five, and the following five blanks printed by the printingeylinder will be numbered from six to ten, and the sequence of numbers will continue until one hundred blanks have been printed and numbered, when the numbering-machine will begin at one again; but the cycle of notation can be changed by changing the number of parts and the number of teeth in the Serial No. 307,792. (Ilo model.)

gear-wheels without in any way deviating from the principle of our device.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation. Fig. 2 showsa top view of the wheel-case A with the wheel-driving gear B G mounted thereon. A portion of the top of case A is broken away in Fig. 2 to show the internal moving-gear actuating the several figure-Wheels. Fig. 3 shows the cam K of Fig. 1,by which the driving mechanism of the type-wheels is actuated.

S is the main shaft,mouuted upon the frame of the printing-press and rotating in equal time with the printing-cylinder with which our device is to register.

K is a cam fixed to the frame-work of the printing-press. It consists of a circular guide and locking ring mounted so that through the most of its course it is concentric with the shaft S and lies in a plane parallel to the plane of rotation of the wheel-case A. At one part 70 the ring-cam K is broken, and one end is bent slightly inward and the other slightly outward.

On the face of the wheel-case A is mounted a spur-wheel B, of which the spurs engage with the cam K, and the wheel B is held fixed in its mountings during almost the entire revolution of the wheel-case A; but at the point where the cam K is broken the wheelB is compelled to make a movement on its axis. This movement is that which is due to the forcing of one cog of the wheel 13 from one side to the other of the circular ring K through the opening 7:. wheel B is a miter-wheel E, which meshes into a miter-wheel O, mounted upon the spindle of one of the figure-wheels IV.

Vithin the wheel-case A are a number of figure-wheels \V V V W. Each. of the figure-wheels W is so mounted that a small portion of its periphery extends out through the side of the wheel-case A, and each of the figure-wheels \V has engraved upon its periphery figures or characters, by means of which an imprint can be made. The Wheelcase A and the contained figure-wheels W form a typecylinder somewhat similar to the type-cylinder to a printing-press, except that the type are movable and are arranged to Concentric with the spurbe moved. Upon each one of the figure-wheels \V is a pinion P, meshing into an annular wheel R. That one of the pinions 1" which is on the same shaft with the miter-wheel (J is a driving-pinion and acts to drive the annu' la-r wheel R, as the mitenwheel is itself moved by the wheel 13 and cam K. The revolution of the annular wheel moves each of the other pinions and figure-wheels equally with the driving-pinion and causes the presentation of a new figure at the exposed part of each of the figure-wheels each time a new figure is presented on the figure-wheel connected with the driving-pinion.

The number of cogs on the wheel 13 corresponds with the number of figures on each wheel. The mitcnwheels E C have the same number of teeth,and prefcrablyeach of them has the same number of teeth as the number of cogs on the wheel 13, so that one revolution of the wheel-case A moves the wheel I3 forward one cog, and this movement causes the figures on the figurewheel W to move t'orward one space.

The arrangement of the numbers on the figure-wheels is determined by the number of figure-wheels that are employed. \Yhere there are five employed, as is shown in the drawings, the sequence on the first wheel would be 1611 10 21, and so on, and on the second wheel would be 2 7 12 17 22, &c. It read around the wheel-case, reading the number that is presented to be pri n ted from the read i n g would be in consecutive numbers from 1 to 5 and at the next revolution of the wheel-case A the reading would be in consecutive numbers from [i to 10.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as novel, and desire to have secured to us by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a wheel with printing-figures engraved 011 the periphery thereof, the described lockingguidering and cam,

and a spur wheel intermeshing with said guide-ring and with a pinion on the shaft of the said engraved wheel,substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A consecutive-nutuber-printing machine consisting of a rotating wheel-case in which are contained a number of printing-wheels, each movable upon its own axis and all connected, as described, to a spur-gear meshing into a disk-cam.

3. A consecutive-n umber-printing machine comprising a rotary-wheel case, a plurality of printing-wheels pivoted to and distributed around the periphery of said case and protruding with their peripheries through the periphery of the case and each of said printing-wheels provided on its periphery with numbering-types, the numbers of each succeeding wheel being in consecutive progressive order to the numbers of the preceding wheel, pinions fixed to the said printingwheels, an annular rack meshing with said pinions, a stationary cam arranged with its main portion concentric with the axis of the said wheel-case and terminating at one point with radial deflections, and gears actuated by said cam and transn'litting motion to the pinion of one of the printing-wheels, as set forth and shown.

l. A consecutive-numbering machine combining, described, the rotary carrying-casc A, with the numbered wheels \V mounted therein, the annular wheel R, pinions l,n1iterwheels C and E, spur-wheel ll, and disk-cam K, all arranged and interacting, as described, it to present consecutive numbers in a position to be printed from as the carrying-case revolves, substantially as described.

IIOYTE C. HADSTA'IE. STEPHEN J. MAR'JIN. itnesses:

CHARLES ll. FISK, EFFIE I. CROFT. 

